Show American Nurses TellOf Tell TeD Of Ship Torpedoing I By EDDY GILMORE LONDON July 5 5 American AP-American AP American Red Cross Cross Cross' S nurses nurses who survived the sinking of the Neth Netherlands ls steamer steamer steamer-Maasdam Maasdam said Saturday the sea was so rough when the ship went down that some iome of their lifeboats capsized Several of the nurses were ix in iq the he water an h hour ur or more before they hey were picked up byi by other ships of the convoy they said The Maasdam was torpedoed in n the Atlantic last month Nine of jf the 17 American nurses onboard onboard on onboard board arrived in England Friday Six are known to be on another ship hip The whereabouts of two still till is unknown but Dr John Gordon of the Red Cros Cross hospital I unit said he believed belleve they had been picked up by a third ship I and ad were safe t The nurses said the German submarine came up in the middle of a convoy although depth charges were dropping around it at the time S Describes Ship Sinking Sinking- The sailors told us they saw the he submarine shoot but we didn't see it ourselves said Shirey Shir Shir- Icy ley ey Ralph just out ut of Jamaica N. N Y high school We knew the submarine was near us We put on our and listened to the depth charges exploding around our ship This kept up about an hour When I 1 felt a sudden shock I knew we were hitUp hitUp hit Up went vent a huge column of everything Pieces of boat Men Clothes Just everything Something hit me on the head and knocked me to the deck Then something else fell on me I was pinned to the deck Its It's a terrible feeling to be on a sinking ship and unable to move But somebody somebody somebody some some- body got me free We climbed into lifeboats that were swaying on the ropes and seemed to be whacking themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to pieces on the side of the ship There was a heavy sea and anda a stiff wind Trip Proved Success I came on the trip for excite excite- ment I certainly had it then Lillian Evans of Cambridge Mass said she was on the last lifeboat to leave The boat sank a short distance from the Maasdam As it began slipping away she said she asked an officer what to do do S Swim he said t Mist Miss Evans sid said she arid two wo others swam about yards to another ship which was part of the convoy Its a terrible sensation she said to be sitting there in a lifeboat lifeboat lifeboat life life- boat feeling the water come first to your knees then to your waist then to your shoulders All the I girls had on so they c couldn't help swimming although some barely knew how Ruth Martin of Washington D. D C. C said she was in her cabin I. I when the torpedo struck You dont don't hear them hit hit hitt she said You feel teel them We had been told what to do if an attack came and everyone was fairly calm I dont don't know I how long it took the ship to sink Its It's just one of those things you dont don't think about when youre you're thinking of saving your l life e. e Lavinia Fulton of Amherst Mass said she got into the first lifeboat to get away The sea sea was very very heavy though It capsized our leaky boat I asked an officer what to do and he told me to hang onto the side of the boat Although it was capsized it didn't sink I Iwas Iw Iwas w was s in the water about an hour |